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Jeffry,
I participated in the mono-touch and mono-droid betas... Moonlight - will run Silverlight
content on Android and at one point Microsoft had announced iOS support. What the status of
those projects are now with Microsoft pulling the plug on Silverlight... who knows.
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Rick Winscot
On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote:
> On 1/10/2012 2:48 PM, Doug McCune wrote:
> > When was the last time you saw a company move away
> > from Flex to Silverlight or JavaFX? Or make a decision to start a new
> > project using Silverlight or JavaFX instead of Flex?
> >
>
>
> In early 2011 a client chose Silverlight for one of their projects. I
> was not involved in the decision; but I got to see some political
> wrangling afterwards. One side was saying "This should have been built
> in HTML5" and the other side saying "This should have been built in
> Flash/Flex."
>
> I was told that the reason Silverlight was chosen was because it would
> allow them to easily port to Android and iOS. I asked for details, but
> was unable to get any specifics. Ss there a way to use Silverlight to
> build iOS/Android apps? Does Mono allow that?
>
>
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